Soon after, it was revealed that a local gamer had lodged a complaint with Apex Interactive, distributors for EA locally, about the lack of local servers for the game and how it would affect consumers. The Consumer Protection Act was brought up, and it seems like EA and Apex took notice of it.

Now, I’m not at all blaming a gamer for wanting an optimal experience for something he’s spent good money on. I never will. But at some point do we have to take a step back and just accept that greater business forces are at work here?

For example, Titanfall makes use of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Databases, and Africa as a whole does not have one. Think for a second, about how this affects not only gaming, but Cloud business across Africa. These data centres aren’t setup just for us to get sub 100ms pings on games. They manage an entire continents cloud services.

So should we have one here? Probably, considering how the entire world is jumping onto the cloud. But will we get one just because we need it for a game. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

The question is, are we entitled to lodge complaints like that and just expect there to be positive change? Should we not expect the scales to tip the other way sometimes when things just can’t be done.

The fact that it is ONE week before it releases is enough to make any outcry valid, even a whiny entitled one.

How long have they known the Azure Cloud Database was not present in Africa? I bet as long as the pre-orders have been available to African residents. Do you think, even if it is a small amount of Africans who participate in international gaming, that the announcement was delayed till now to inflate the amount of preorders, and thus total, sales? Ya know, for those shareholders…

KoolAidMan

Yeah in other words EA being EA

KoolAidMan

The game played fine on EU servers I enjoyed it I could wait a bit longer for local servers sooo…. can someone please provide the address of the guy who complained to Apex I just wanna have a little talk ;)

Tamaryn Stegmann

As a PC and PS4 owner, this would typically be the time where I jump in and snub it in the faces of XBox fans. However, I feel bad for you guys and having high ms is a constant frustration for online gaming, but to come at the last moment and to cancel a game for those reasons… are just… >.> NOT COOL EA. NOT COOL